Rainy Day Games

I live in Pennsylvania and am currently experiencing a monster thunderstorm.  It got me thinking.  Lots of people talk about rainy day activities - reading books, certain albums or movies that they return to. 
 
Are there any (types of) games you return to when it's nasty outside?  I for one am prepping to curl up with a DS, though I haven't picked a cart yet.

Yeah, I'm in Maryland and we're getting the same storm. I don't have any specific games that I go to, but I had a power surge so I'm using my PSP at the moment.

" I live in Pennsylvania and am currently experiencing a monster thunderstorm.  It got me thinking.  Lots of people talk about rainy day activities - reading books, certain albums or movies that they return to.  Are there any (types of) games you return to when it's nasty outside?  I for one am prepping to curl up with a DS, though I haven't picked a cart yet. "

" @king0fprussia said:

" I live in Pennsylvania and am currently experiencing a monster thunderstorm.  It got me thinking.  Lots of people talk about rainy day activities - reading books, certain albums or movies that they return to.  Are there any (types of) games you return to when it's nasty outside?  I for one am prepping to curl up with a DS, though I haven't picked a cart yet. "

Same here, close to Philly?  Or nearer to the NYC/NJ side?    I'm just chilling on my laptop watching netflix. "

a rainy day is a good time for self-reflection

Usually sports and puzzle games feel right during a thunderstorm.
 
Then again, any video game feels right during a thunderstorm.

In my personal opinion, I have this urge to play games with rain or water in them. Two of my favorites are Zelda: Wind Waker and Zelda: Link's Awakening. 
 
Another good rainy day game is an Animal Crossing title. Also, thunder can add ambient noise and "effect" to a game like Resident Evil remake/Zero that is pretty cool and makes them funner to play/scarier. Especially at night during a thunderstorm. Or Silent Hill, something of that nature if you're into those types of games. 
 
But I think a "rainy day game" is simply any game that you find both fun and relaxing or fits with a rainy day kind of feel. 
 
I live in Phoenix, AZ so rainy days don't come often! but when they do it feels extra special. In Phoenix, rain is celebrated like a holiday!

Ahh, it's about 75 here with a nice breeze blowing in the North Bay.   
 
But I'd say just about any video game during a thunderstorm.

The Fall/Winter rains usually inspire me to play FFXII for whatever reason.

Obviously, Persona 4.

Alan wake, get that broody mood-a-goin. 
 
Anything dark and scary.

If you're experiencing thunder and lightning, I would play Strider...for some reason.

Heavy Rain

I live in Fl and it rains 4/7 out of the week, so there isn't any real restrictions on any activity. 
 
Ex. I just played soccer in the rain yesterday and that was loads of fun.

Demons souls, if the rain is really bad you can usually play all the way through it in one sitting. The ambiance of rain just seems perfect for that game!

I usually play Silent Hill 2 if it happens to be raining outside. Maybe a little bit of Call of Duty 4 as well. Sometimes a little bit of Twisted Metal.

I really, really want Chrono Trigger DS right now............

I tend to play my teenage favorites when we get a terrible storm here.  I'll usually play one of the PS1 Final Fantasies, or maybe some sort of RPG on the DS if we don't have power.   
 
I also usually have a couple of games in my backlog that I haven't played much.  I tend to call those my "rainy day" games because I boot them up most often when I'm stuck indoors due to weather or other circumstances.  Where I come from (Montana), it's not so much the summer storms as it is the winter ones that affect us.

I'm also now thinking of Diablo 2 only because of the rain in the first area.  

Babe Pig In The City

I usually like to play something creepy like F.E.A.R on my pc, the storm outside adds to the atmosphere. Those storms you all are having probably came from my direction, lol.

Interesting to see that most people seem to prefer to play scary games on a rainy day. For some reason rain makes me think of Wind Waker, which is entirely light-hearted.

Survival horror goes best with night and rain

I'll you can't pull some friends and family together to play Risk (as in the board game), then Civilization: Revolution -- I'm sorry, Sid Meier's Civilization: Revolution -- is a good choice.

Fat Slice or Pandemic 2 :)

Heavy Rain.. hehehehe

ind@sagesebas said:

" @astrotriforce: wind waker on a really rainy torrential downpour day would be amazing  "

Well its raining like crayz outside and i'm play MGS2 substance doing those snake tales things

Strategy and puzzle games do it for me.  Though sometimes a storm inspires me to hook up and play older systems.

If the weather is preventing me from going out I prefer to play any MMO where I can still talk to some of my mates.

Civ 4. Hooooollly shit does that game chew up time.

It doesn't matter.

The same ones that I play when it's sunny outside. Although if the storm causes a power out then I would have dug out what ever handheld I had at the time. Then shortly remember why I never play the dam thing. Assuming there was natural light I would most likely just read a book or wait for the power to come back on.

" @astrotriforce:  Absolutely! But I love being two hours north of there and getting crazy monsoons in the summer. : ) "

" Rainy Day Games is a business near me that sells trading cards and other types of games. Totally thought you made a thread about it. 

Found this picture on Google and I think it's actually the store right up the street from me. Weird. "

It's raining right now, FINALLY there is a thunderstorm. And I just happen to be playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 (a water level as I type this believe it or not!). And somehow . . . it just fits! 
 
New Rainy Day game: Super Mario Galaxy 2! :D

Something scary.